Principal UI Engineer

HUMAN was founded in 2012 in a Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore by Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Dan Kaminsky, and Ash Kalb. Our humble beginnings led to the creation of the Human Defense Platform, the backbone of all our products that safeguards enterprises from sophisticated bots, fraud, and account abuse. Today we verify the humanity of more than 20 trillion interactions per week for some of the largest companies and internet platforms. 

Our hacker roots still permeate everything we do. You will be a part of the HUMAN front line in our commitment to protecting companies (and in turn, their customers) from both revenue and reputation risk caused by digital attacks. However, HUMAN is not the center of this story. Humans like yourself are. We firmly believe in putting people first. This approach spans our extensive total rewards package, inclusive of competitive compensation, benefits, stipends - as well as our  day-to-day culture - to ensure every human is empowered to do the best work of their life. We want to hear about the marathon you’re training for. We want to see pictures of your pets. We want to know your favorite robot (we have many).

 Even if you’re not a conventional “hacker” we can assure you that you are a hacker in your own right. We want to work with people like you who break down problems to build up better solutions. That’s what makes us HUMAN. You’ll be joining us at an exciting moment in the HUMAN story: we joined forces with PerimeterX in a market-changing merger, as well as recently acquired clean.io to enhance the Human Defense Platform. Together under the HUMAN brand, we will disrupt the economics of cybercrime. We hope you can join us in that mission.

The Mediaguard Enforcement and Reporting team is responsible for developing and maintaining a highly scalable, distributed architecture that collects signals and delivers insights to some of the biggest internet companies on the planet. Our small and nimble team of edge service backend engineers writes software that can handle sustained loads of 15 trillion requests per week, with peaks sometimes reaching 3 trillion  per day! As a Principal Frontend Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership for the UI products, leading efforts to standardize, scale, and performance optimize the HUMAN Dashboard to meet business requirements. You’ll be hands-on building and  maintaining the HUMAN Dashboard  providing tools for customers to dig deeper into their traffic data gaining insights into fraudulent activities detected, as well as coaching and mentoring your fellow engineers helping them maximize their  impact. This team is heavily involved in product development, supporting unique customer integrations and looking for ways to make deploying and configuring our technology as seamless as possible. The Reporting(Frontend) team largely uses the React, GraphQL, Nodejs, MongoDB, Looker, Python, and Jinja templates for ETL jobs. 

What you'll do:

• Become the go-to technical person for HUMAN Dashboard development.
• Architect the next generation HUMAN Dashboard.
• Set an example of what it means to ship high impact work with velocity, reliability and quality
• Participate in and many cases drive high leverage, cross organizational initiatives to improve our ability to move fast with confidence
• Lead post mortems and teach other makers how to conduct effective root cause analyses to deeply understand the problem at hand
• Collaborate with Product and Detection Researchers (data scientists, malware reversers, threat analysts) to design and propose new ways to surface  signals and traffic insights.
• Profile, debug, optimize and harden our web applications.
• Participate in an agile development cycle, write documentation, give talks and mentor others
• Work with a team of uniquely talented engineers who love to learn, experiment, and push the limits of modern technology
• Participate in building a unique culture that emphasizes lean principles and optimizes for deep work, collaboration and doing the best work of your career

Who you are:

• You’re either already comfortable in web app development (React, GraphQL, Javascript, Nodejs)
• You have your share of war stories about Frontend engineering and UI  architectures and common pitfalls
• You constantly drive for correctness and performance, in that order
• You can own a large sized feature all the way through from technical design to deployment in production
• You are proficient in teaching other makers how to move fast and unblock themselves by supporting them hands on in code and design reviews
• You look to find new and innovative ways to solve complex problems through rigorous experimentation
• You have an open attitude and collaborate well across team boundaries- be they the office hallway or the continental divide.
• These are some additional skills that the team has developed and use regularly but are not required for new hires  (other than a burning desire to learn them when needed):
• Experience automating the deployment of distributed software to cloud environments like AWS, Azure or GCP (which likely also means you know some combination of Kubernetes, Docker, and/or Terraform)
• Able to do basic Linux system administration
• Experience with browser automation tools running automated tests